Absolutely true.
A programmer may be the most creative genius on earth but do NOT let him write the manual for his product!
Mr. Sowell is a writer. He could have used an even better example: Word Processing. I can write a letter on a Fred writer Session on an Apple II. the program takes up about 48k on disk, has a CPU footprint of not at all, and creates a basically WYSIWYG image of a letter that when printed on 8.5X11 paper looks NO DIFFERENT then a modern letter produced in M$ WORD from a system that occupies gigabytes of space, takes triple digit mega-bytes of memory, and has more features then any sane man could want/use need. but hey its NEW and IMPROVED (tm). Seems to me, its the same old sheet of paper that comes out in the end...
Indeed. Does anyone have links to any sources for info on
1: eliminate or deactivate RFID chips in clothing and other itesm other then the old method of microwave which seems to have an adverse reaction to Andrew Jackson's eyball iirc from an earlier/. on this or:
2: how to tweak, hack, redirect, reprogram, re-tune, reset an RFID so that instead of denoting on the bill of lading that this airline seat is Joe Blow on his way to see his mistress in Newark, rather it is 1000 crates of pampers being shipped to the Wally World in Tampa.
Time and again I have said it: Greed motivates all of these. There is ONLY one emotion more porwerful the greed:
Self Preservation. The answer is to fund a small well equiped and responsive, off-shore mercenary army. Some knee-cappings, a few deaths..all well publicized and preferably technicolor in their gruesomeness of the scum who are behind these invasions of your and my business and...it will end as quickly as it started. This post is both tongue in cheek and just the right touch of dead serious.
I still hate getting calls and do not own a cell, the only purpose my land line serves is to provide ADSL..if you want me, email me. Many yearts ago, I was working for a shop. One of the questions I asked in the interview was "Would I be required to carry a pager or be on an 'on call' list? ". The answer was "no'. I took the job. Well at that time I did not have a home phone at all. I did have a long distance phone account, but that is another story. Anyway, some time later on that job a new supervisor started and demanded that I have a home phone. I said fine, called the POTS and had it installed, directing them to send the bill to . That arrangement (and the phone) lasted 1 month. I will not pay for any communication device I have no intention of using to provide someone else with an easy way to invade my privacy, and btw: hang up and drive please.
I have a simple solution: If the studios.... lets take oh...Sony Pictures for example, wishes to stop downloaders from stealing their intelectual property then they should go directly after the people who sell blank media and...oh wait...Sony sells blank media. Uh well then They should go after the manufacturers of DVDR and CDR technology since that is how..oh wait, Sony makes DVDR and CDRs... uh. uh...
Actually, I had not read 2600 since the 80s... LAst month I found a 2600 quarterly in a bookstore and thought "This is still published?" and bought it. Yes, you are right. Not the best tech info. Back in "The Day" my faoirite "hacker" rag was actually The Computist since I leaned towards the Apple ][ side. -The point of my above was humor/sarcasm My actual favorite mag would be Mac Format. I also read PC Mag, Byte, Dr Dobbs, Computerworld, and I don't know how many others.. but I STILL think Shotgun News is one of the best;)
I think this is absolutely the ISP (or admin's) right to read whatever they need to in a customer's email to better provide service and further the casue of communication.. -signed Apeals Court Sysadmin
PS : Justice Smith: Zelda's email had some tech difficulties getting through, but what she said was: She couldn't get the chocolate stains out of her purple tutu so she will have to wear the red one for the usual Thursday session. be sure to wear your fishnets and don't forget the whips.
In the old days of a bounty paid for the elimination of wolves coyotes or other at the time considered pest animals, the rule was: to prove you had indeed killed the animal, instead of dragging the whole carcass to the local government office.... Instead, you would cut off and bring in: "both ears and the tail". Such a rule, if practiced say....twice...then publicized might all by itself virtually eliminate spam, worms and other les savory internet garbage...
an objection I have often read is that the Spammer simply moves to a area outside the jurisdiction of laws that govern their anti-social behavior. Well then, if Outlawry is the problem, use it as a solution: YES to a bounty. BUT: Place the bounty in a numbered Swiss account to pay anonymously to a crack mercenary army that is charged with eliminating Spammers.
The old "both ears and the tail" rule here.
Agreed. I saw the fansubs of GitS Standalone Complex and suffered mass confusion. and I STILL don't know what Ghost is all about! Now I have only seen about 6 episodes so... My intro to Anime was a fansyb of Full Metal Panic. -recommended; Funny story and good graphics. I followed that with Cowboy Bebop -has anyone else noted the similarity between this series and the universe in the game "Freelancer"?
Anime is how life ought to be...only with subtitles...
Midnight Commander RULES!!!! Now, if I coudl only get it to work in Terminal on OS X 10.3. Well actually I got it to work, but the arrow keys do not work for navigation. I started using Norton Commander from DOS and still prefer the look and feel of that file manager to any GUI file manager. By the way... if anyone is interested: there is a file manager that works in 8bit Apple II ProDOS called "SNEEZE" that looks acts and feels just like mc.
For years, back when I traveled a lot by plane.. and this was many years back... I ALWAYS used a fake name, and paid by cash. Why? Not because I had something to hide. I do not. But I DO believe that my business is just that: my business, and not yours, not the government's, not Acme Marketing's.. These days I travel by car, bus, walk, or ride a bike. I do not fly. I would see no difficulty in "hopping a frieght" if it came to it..
I have always wondered why good network geeks who go out of their way to hide their real IP, and take various other protective steps to insure their net is not violated, will hand over the most confidential data about themselves without a backward glance..
Every incremental step taken "for our own good", "To protect us", or whatever the reason du jours, is just another step away from what this land was once about. We have met the Evil Empire and him be US!
With all due respect: I LOVE reading manuals!! I enjoy the format as some like the cliff-hanger aproach of novels. The first "manual" on Linux I read (and this was so that I could install RedHat 4.0 on an old 486 EISA based swerver) turned out to not be a manual at all. The author had grabbed every HOWTO and Mini-HOWTO he could find, then interspersed that with Usenet posts and spell checked IRC replies. In spite of this eclectic editorship and the fact that Linux of that vintage on a purpose built Netware box just can't be done, I done it. Why? because I read novels the way other folks watch TV..
You start on PC Mag, migrate to (the old) Byte, before you know it you are drooling over the fold-outs in Dr Dobbs... The reading of tech lit is in itself a joyous exercise. a non-geek book on Linux is exactly what the world needs.
I recall a story in iirc Datamation magazine some 20 years ago about a Mainframe sysadmin in Beirut. He was running a IBM 370 series but what was interesting was the bullet holes in the core units (thats memory to the younger geeks among us;) It seems the delivery of the machine happened coincidentally with one of the perenial flair-ups of violence in that town. The story was about the most interesting assignments IBM "CEs" (as their repair guys were called) had faced. Tain't nothing new under the sun folks...
Wonderful article. In a similar vein I would suggest looking at Dr Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor site http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ and his various reviews of NASA policy. also, this article (which is linked on Jerry's site) http://tinyurl.com/2ljja truely says it all on the problems with NASA.
At first I thought mine was forgotten too, but then I finally got it: the styleized time line thing at the beginning, when viewed in pdf Page Layout mode is in reality the wire wrap program for the accounts recievable run we programmed on an old IBM 1401 on DOS/VSE with Wire Board supliments. And they say there are no conspircacies in the world...hurumph!
All that this will mean is that the Hardware Of The Future will be built in fabs all over Asia, Africa, the Pacific, etc for non-US customers, developing inovative and new software/hardware products. Meanwhile, the Gnomes of Redmond will insure that inovation in no way enters the American equation. First the third world gets a boost in communication by not needing to amortize any legacy geer, now, if such nonsense goes forward it will boost them on the hardware front. Is Senegal going to be the new Silicon Valley?
I have a friend in South Korea. The Internet Providers there offer service that should make American providers down right EMBARRASSED! His concept of a high speed link and my DSL fed one are a few megabytes (beg-a-byte?) per second seperated from each other..
All I could say on metaphysics, deity, religion and the irrational was previously said, and said considerably well, by one Richard Feynaman.
Please see this: http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_scienc e.html
I keep Saying this and seriously I think this idea may work: Instead of a Spam tax to Microsoft, we pay a penny or so to a numbered Swiss account that is charged with paying for a dedicated band of mercenaries. After some well publicized cases of kneecapping of identified Spammers, I do believe the volume will finally subside...nad the cheers world wide will be deafening!
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Absolutely true. A programmer may be the most creative genius on earth but do NOT let him write the manual for his product! Mr. Sowell is a writer. He could have used an even better example: Word Processing. I can write a letter on a Fred writer Session on an Apple II. the program takes up about 48k on disk, has a CPU footprint of not at all, and creates a basically WYSIWYG image of a letter that when printed on 8.5X11 paper looks NO DIFFERENT then a modern letter produced in M$ WORD from a system that occupies gigabytes of space, takes triple digit mega-bytes of memory, and has more features then any sane man could want/use need. but hey its NEW and IMPROVED (tm). Seems to me, its the same old sheet of paper that comes out in the end...
Thanks. Now that I know it is possible...time to head to the workbench and see what I can build..
Query: In Mexico is it legal to keep and bear arms?
Indeed. Does anyone have links to any sources for info on 1: eliminate or deactivate RFID chips in clothing and other itesm other then the old method of microwave which seems to have an adverse reaction to Andrew Jackson's eyball iirc from an earlier /. on this or:
2: how to tweak, hack, redirect, reprogram, re-tune, reset an RFID so that instead of denoting on the bill of lading that this airline seat is Joe Blow on his way to see his mistress in Newark, rather it is 1000 crates of pampers being shipped to the Wally World in Tampa.
SFU? I read that as "SNAFU"
Time and again I have said it: Greed motivates all of these. There is ONLY one emotion more porwerful the greed:
Self Preservation.
The answer is to fund a small well equiped and responsive, off-shore mercenary army. Some knee-cappings, a few deaths..all well publicized and preferably technicolor in their gruesomeness of the scum who are behind these invasions of your and my business and...it will end as quickly as it started.
This post is both tongue in cheek and just the right touch of dead serious.
I still hate getting calls and do not own a cell, the only purpose my land line serves is to provide ADSL..if you want me, email me.
Many yearts ago, I was working for a shop. One of the questions I asked in the interview was "Would I be required to carry a pager or be on an 'on call' list? ". The answer was "no'. I took the job. Well at that time I did not have a home phone at all. I did have a long distance phone account, but that is another story.
Anyway, some time later on that job a new supervisor started and demanded that I have a home phone. I said fine, called the POTS and had it installed, directing them to send the bill to . That arrangement (and the phone) lasted 1 month. I will not pay for any communication device I have no intention of using to provide someone else with an easy way to invade my privacy, and btw: hang up and drive please.
I have a simple solution: If the studios.... lets take oh...Sony Pictures for example, wishes to stop downloaders from stealing their intelectual property then they should go directly after the people who sell blank media and...oh wait...Sony sells blank media. Uh well then They should go after the manufacturers of DVDR and CDR technology since that is how..oh wait, Sony makes DVDR and CDRs... uh. uh...
Actually, I had not read 2600 since the 80s... LAst month I found a 2600 quarterly in a bookstore and thought "This is still published?" and bought it. Yes, you are right. Not the best tech info. Back in "The Day" my faoirite "hacker" rag was actually The Computist since I leaned towards the Apple ][ side. ;)
-The point of my above was humor/sarcasm
My actual favorite mag would be Mac Format. I also read PC Mag, Byte, Dr Dobbs, Computerworld, and I don't know how many others.. but I STILL think Shotgun News is one of the best
For technical reads: 2600. When it comes to PC recycling opportunities...I prefer to read Shotgun News
I think this is absolutely the ISP (or admin's) right to read whatever they need to in a customer's email to better provide service and further the casue of communication..
-signed Apeals Court Sysadmin
PS : Justice Smith: Zelda's email had some tech difficulties getting through, but what she said was:
She couldn't get the chocolate stains out of her purple tutu so she will have to wear the red one for the usual Thursday session. be sure to wear your fishnets and don't forget the whips.
In the old days of a bounty paid for the elimination of wolves coyotes or other at the time considered pest animals, the rule was: to prove you had indeed killed the animal, instead of dragging the whole carcass to the local government office.... Instead, you would cut off and bring in: "both ears and the tail". Such a rule, if practiced say....twice...then publicized might all by itself virtually eliminate spam, worms and other les savory internet garbage...
an objection I have often read is that the Spammer simply moves to a area outside the jurisdiction of laws that govern their anti-social behavior. Well then, if Outlawry is the problem, use it as a solution: YES to a bounty. BUT: Place the bounty in a numbered Swiss account to pay anonymously to a crack mercenary army that is charged with eliminating Spammers.
The old "both ears and the tail" rule here.
So...it I attach a Pringles can to my tinfoil hat will the bad 802.11 be purged from the good 802.11?
Agreed. I saw the fansubs of GitS Standalone Complex and suffered mass confusion. and I STILL don't know what Ghost is all about! Now I have only seen about 6 episodes so...
My intro to Anime was a fansyb of Full Metal Panic. -recommended; Funny story and good graphics. I followed that with Cowboy Bebop -has anyone else noted the similarity between this series and the universe in the game "Freelancer"?
Anime is how life ought to be...only with subtitles...
Midnight Commander RULES!!!! Now, if I coudl only get it to work in Terminal on OS X 10.3. Well actually I got it to work, but the arrow keys do not work for navigation.
I started using Norton Commander from DOS and still prefer the look and feel of that file manager to any GUI file manager.
By the way... if anyone is interested: there is a file manager that works in 8bit Apple II ProDOS called "SNEEZE" that looks acts and feels just like mc.
For years, back when I traveled a lot by plane.. and this was many years back... I ALWAYS used a fake name, and paid by cash. Why? Not because I had something to hide. I do not. But I DO believe that my business is just that: my business, and not yours, not the government's, not Acme Marketing's.. These days I travel by car, bus, walk, or ride a bike. I do not fly. I would see no difficulty in "hopping a frieght" if it came to it..
I have always wondered why good network geeks who go out of their way to hide their real IP, and take various other protective steps to insure their net is not violated, will hand over the most confidential data about themselves without a backward glance..
Every incremental step taken "for our own good", "To protect us", or whatever the reason du jours, is just another step away from what this land was once about. We have met the Evil Empire and him be US!
With all due respect: I LOVE reading manuals!! I enjoy the format as some like the cliff-hanger aproach of novels. The first "manual" on Linux I read (and this was so that I could install RedHat 4.0 on an old 486 EISA based swerver) turned out to not be a manual at all. The author had grabbed every HOWTO and Mini-HOWTO he could find, then interspersed that with Usenet posts and spell checked IRC replies. In spite of this eclectic editorship and the fact that Linux of that vintage on a purpose built Netware box just can't be done, I done it. Why? because I read novels the way other folks watch TV..
You start on PC Mag, migrate to (the old) Byte, before you know it you are drooling over the fold-outs in Dr Dobbs... The reading of tech lit is in itself a joyous exercise.
a non-geek book on Linux is exactly what the world needs.
I recall a story in iirc Datamation magazine some 20 years ago about a Mainframe sysadmin in Beirut. He was running a IBM 370 series but what was interesting was the bullet holes in the core units (thats memory to the younger geeks among us ;) It seems the delivery of the machine happened coincidentally with one of the perenial flair-ups of violence in that town. The story was about the most interesting assignments IBM "CEs" (as their repair guys were called) had faced. Tain't nothing new under the sun folks...
Wonderful article. In a similar vein I would suggest looking at Dr Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor site http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ and his various reviews of NASA policy. also, this article (which is linked on Jerry's site) http://tinyurl.com/2ljja truely says it all on the problems with NASA.
At first I thought mine was forgotten too, but then I finally got it: the styleized time line thing at the beginning, when viewed in pdf Page Layout mode is in reality the wire wrap program for the accounts recievable run we programmed on an old IBM 1401 on DOS/VSE with Wire Board supliments. And they say there are no conspircacies in the world...hurumph!
All that this will mean is that the Hardware Of The Future will be built in fabs all over Asia, Africa, the Pacific, etc for non-US customers, developing inovative and new software/hardware products. Meanwhile, the Gnomes of Redmond will insure that inovation in no way enters the American equation. First the third world gets a boost in communication by not needing to amortize any legacy geer, now, if such nonsense goes forward it will boost them on the hardware front. Is Senegal going to be the new Silicon Valley?
I have a friend in South Korea. The Internet Providers there offer service that should make American providers down right EMBARRASSED! His concept of a high speed link and my DSL fed one are a few megabytes (beg-a-byte?) per second seperated from each other..
All I could say on metaphysics, deity, religion and the irrational was previously said, and said considerably well, by one Richard Feynaman. Please see this: http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_scienc e.html
I keep Saying this and seriously I think this idea may work: Instead of a Spam tax to Microsoft, we pay a penny or so to a numbered Swiss account that is charged with paying for a dedicated band of mercenaries. After some well publicized cases of kneecapping of identified Spammers, I do believe the volume will finally subside...nad the cheers world wide will be deafening!